Subject: Re: Hardware Console Redirection
To: NetBSD Users's Discussion List <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@planix.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 11/12/2006 19:58:50
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At Wed, 1 Nov 2006 05:59:50 -0700,
Herb Peyerl wrote:
>=20
> On Nov 1, 2006, at 5:53 AM, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> >
> > Actually, if we set the default speed for the serial port in the
> > bootblocks to "0", it would use whatever the BIOS had set up.
> >
> > But this needs testing.
>=20
> I've played with this only briefly... I couldn't get it to =20
> immediately work so I punted and made it just match the BIOS.

I tried on an IBM x336 box I have here, but I don't remember if it works
or not and there's also apparently no easy way to query what current
boot block settings are (which would let me find out if it works already
without trying it all again :-)).

--=20
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